Speaking out against Harper’s budget
The Conservative Budget Implementation Act 2012 is a “trojan horse” bill sneaking in hundreds of pages of harmful new measures that: gut environmental protection; threaten fisheries and other resources; cut public pensions and job standards; reduce democratic accountability; and undermine public health care. The Conservatives rejected our NDP proposal to split this massive 425-page bill to permit study and debate. So as your Official Opposition, we are holding our own